What are you feeling? Here’s a word list to help you decide.
In a recent post I described how important it is to be able to identify and describe how you feel. I know this is hard for some people so I’ve compiled this list of emotional adjectives so you can scan it and see if it helps gives a name to how you’re feeling.
Mostly we need help describing our negative emotions, but I’ve included some happy ones too—and I hope you get to use them a lot!
(Thank you, Mirriam-Webster app on my iPhone.)
SAD
Bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, mournful, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched.
MAD (Caution: Telling someone you’re feeling angry, or other similarly enflamed emotion, is likely to put them on the defensive. Use one of the SAD or BAD words instead if possible.)
Angered, apoplectic, ballistic, enraged, foaming, fuming, furious, hopping mad, hot, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irate, ireful, livid, outraged, rankled, roiled, sore, steamed up, steaming, teed off, ticked, wrathful (see how hot these words are?)
BAD
Aggrieved, alienated, baffled, bereft, blocked, confused, crummy, defeated, discontented, discouraged, disgruntled, displeased, dissatisfied, estragned, foiled, forlorn, frustrated, hopeless, hindered, humiliated, ill, ineffectual, inferior, lame, lonely, lousy, miserable, opposed, puzzled, suboptimal, subpar, thwarted, unsatisfactory, worried, wretched.
GLAD
Admiring, aglow, agreeable, amazed, amazing, astonished, astounding, awesome, beaming, blessed, blissful, bright, calm, cheerful, congenial, delighted, delightful, dreamy, fabulous, fantastic, friendly, felicitous, fortunate, free, fulfilled, glowing, good, grateful, gratified, happy, healthy, heavenly, inspired, interested, intrigued, jolly, joyful, joyous, keen, loving, luscious, lustfull, marvelous, nice, peaceful, pleasant, pleasantly suprprised, pleased, quiet, radiant, rested, restful, satisfied, serene, still, stunning, stupendous, sublime, sunny, thankful, tickled, tranquil, upbeat, warm, willing, wonderful, wondrous,
I felt really warm and radiant writing the last list—can you feel a nicer sensation in your body reading the GLAD words than reading the other ones?
Please send me any words you think should be added to the list!
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